Barrel-washer



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BARREL WA HER.

No. 568,347. Patented Sept. 29, 1896.

UNITED; STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

CHARLES HEROLD, OF FORT VORTH, TEXAS.

BARREL-WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,347,'dated September 29, 1896.

Application filed July 30, 1894.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES HEROLD, a resi dent of Fort WVorth, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Washing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use the same.

The invention relates to barrel cleaning and washing machines, and has for its object to provide such machines with barrel-supporting rollers to rotate the barrel in contact with brushes, which rollers shall be more durable and economical than those provided with rub ber tires or rings, as usual heretofore in machines for the samegeneral purpose; and it consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is an end elevation.

Numerall denotes the base, 2 the posts, and 3 a cross-bar, of a barrelcleaning apparatus. Upon this frame and between adjacent posts 2 are adj ustably-supported brushes 4, extendin g horizontally therefrom and adapted to clean the ends of a barrel suitably supported and rotated between said brushes.

5 denotes a brush having a working face shaped to conform longitudinally to a barrel and adjustably suspended from the crossbar 3 of the frame.

Upon pillow-blocks 6, suitably secured to the frame-base and in appropriate bearings, are journaled two shafts 7 adapted to be turned by means of a driving-pulley S and by connecting sprocket wheels and chains, or

in any usual manner.

9 9 indicate four barrel supporting and turning disks or wheels adjustably fixed to the shafts 7 by means of a sleeve and screws or their equivalent, as indicated. These disks may be made of skeleton form, having a suitable annular periphery surrounding spokes or surrounding a spider of any usual form. The inner and main part of these composite disks consists of the part 10, provided on its periphery with an offset flange 11 to form a seat for an elastic ring 12. Heretofore similar rings held in a groove in the periphery of the disks have been made to support and semi No. 518,997. (No model.)

move the barrel resting directly upon them; but rubber rings so used are short-lived and expensive. The present improvement is not limited to rubber rings, and other material is contemplated, though rubber is preferred. It would be practicable to use an annulus of wire-coil with good effect.

By the improved construction rings l2 are held in their seats and covered by rings 13, made of metal or other durable material, and said elastic rings 12 are defended against wear and against contact with the barrel by the transverse part or bearing-face 14 of said ring 13. Thistransverse portion is shaped to fit the barrel lengthwise, and the several disks or wheels hold the barrel against lengthwise movement, which is also prevented by the end brushes.

The rings 14 are secured to the inner part of the disks 9 by bolts or screws 15, secured in said parts 10. The rings 13 have slots 16, through which screws 15 pass, and larger than said screws, the construction being such that the rings 13 can have a slight movement in a vertical plane when said rings are compressed or expanded at their upper portions, which sustain the weight of the barrel through the medium of flanges 14:. To cooperate with this feature of the construction, the flanges 14 are normally situated a small distance from the outer edge of the offset flange of the part 10, so as not to prevent the yielding of the clastic ring under the weight and pressure of the barrel.

The ring 13, having flange 14, may be made either entire or in sections. The exterior of the part 14 may be roughened or provided with pins, though the effect of the improvement is to enable such devices to be dispensed with as is desirable, for the reason that they disks 9 can be quickly and easily assembled and that the elastic rings can be as easily renewed. It is, however, one of the important objects of the invention to obviate the necessity. of frequently renewing such rings, as

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is necessary when they are operated in contact with the barrel by the rotation of the shafts which carry the barrel supporting disks.

Use is made in the improved construction of the elastic rings to support the barrel in a yielding manner and at the same time hold the hard bearing-face of the movable rings 13 in close contact therewith, and a simple economical structure to effect these purposes is thereby provided.

I do not broadly claim a friction-rim nor an elastic rim, as such devices have been used in various structures. Rims having the operation and effect of my improvement were unknown in the art of barrel-cleaning prior to my invention. Toothed rims have been used; but such devices wear the barrels in an objectionable manner, and rubber rims have been preferred and more commonly used; but such rims used in contact with the barrels need frequent renewal and have proved expensive. The present improvement avoids the necessity of such frequent renewals, and it also supercedes the necessity for the use of teeth.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a machine for cleaning barrels, the combination of rotating barrel-supporting disks composed of an inner portion 10 and a detachable annular exterior portion and an intermediate elastic ringwhereby the exterior ring is held against the barrel in a yielding manner with devices for Washing the barrel, substantially as set forth.

2. In a machine for cleaning barrels, the combination of the barrel-supporting disks 10 each having an offset peripheral flange, an elastic ring seated in the recess formed by said flange, a ring 13 provided with flange ll and slots 16 and screw-bolt 15 with brushes 4 and 5, substantially as set forth.

3. In a machine for cleaning barrels, the combination of the barrel-supporting disks 10 each having an offset peripheral flange, an elastic ring seated in the recess formed by said flange, a ring 13 provided with flange 14 and slots 16 and screw-bolt 15 with brushes & and 5, said ring and brush 5 also having bearing-faces conforming to the contour of the barrel, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES llEROLD.

Vitn esses:

J 0s. A. SMITH, A. E. THOMPSON, MARTIN CASEY, THOMAS FEUDAL WEST. 

